The Dog Days of Detroit: Urban Stray and Feral Animals

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura A. Reese
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Public Response ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
The Public ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Governing System ◽  
Feral Animals ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The City

This article details the extent and import of the stray and feral dog problem in the City of Detroit in the context of regime and network theories of governance. Using data drawn from a survey of animal welfare service providers, this article provides a description of the complex and essentially grass roots service provision network currently in place to address the problem. The primary cause of the roaming dog problem in the city is the poor economy and the problem is worse in the most distressed neighborhoods. Several factors serve as barriers to addressing the issue. First, the actual number of roaming dogs is a question of contention in the city. Second, weaknesses in the city governing system and scarce resources have limited the public response to the problem. As a result, services are provided by an unstable and fragmented network of nonprofit organizations largely located outside the city of Detroit itself.

Nonprofit Financial Response to Immigration

2021 ◽  
pp. 089976402110574
Author(s):  
Claire Le Barbenchon ◽  
Lisa A. Keister
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Community Survey ◽  
Financial Behavior ◽  
Behavior Changes ◽  
Charitable Contributions ◽  
Immigrant Populations ◽  
Using Data ◽  
External Forces ◽  
Financial Transactions

Nonprofit organizations are important actors in local communities, providing services to vulnerable populations and acting as stewards for charitable contributions from other members of the population. An important question is whether nonprofits spend or receive additional revenues in response to changes in the populations they serve. Because immigrant populations both receive and contribute to nonprofit resources, changes in immigrant numbers should be reflected in changing financial behavior of local nonprofits. Using data from the National Center for Charitable Statistics and the American Community Survey, we study whether nonprofit financial transactions change in response to changes in the local immigration population, the nature of the change, and the degree to which these changes vary by nonprofit type. Findings suggest that nonprofit financial behavior changes with growth and decline in immigrant populations underscoring the importance of nonprofits as service providers and contribute to an understanding of how organizations respond to external forces.

Postsocialist Informal Urbanism between Creativity and Power. Notes on Four Projects from Romania

Südosteuropa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-68
Author(s):  
Şerban Văetişi
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Critical Comparison ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Informal Urbanism ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
The City ◽  
Postsocialist Transformations

Abstract The author illustrates squatting, do-it-yourself urbanism, creative re-appropriation of public space, guerrilla gardening, and artistic occupy-type intervention as forms and evolutions of informal urbanism. By interpreting examples observed in two postsocialist Romanian cities the author comments on the thin boundary between informal and authorized urbanism, and between creativity and power; he interrogates also the key matter of access to the city, with its regulations, resources, and potentialities. His perspective implies an empirical and ethnographic approach to informality, which is analysed in the contexts of privatization logics, especially in relation to the reconfiguration of the public and the private which is so specific to postsocialist transformations. The contrast between grass-roots responses and official projects is seen as decisive in understanding strategies of representations, control of resources, and capital accumulation. Additionally the author suggests the relevance of theorizing such postsocialist urban processes in fruitful but critical comparison with other non-Western forms of urbanism, notably postcolonial ones.

scholarly journals Language Provision in the Scottish Public Sector: Recommendations to Promote Inclusive Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Róisín McKelvey
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
City Council ◽  
The Public ◽  
Language Support ◽  
Inclusive Practice ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The City

Public service providers in Scotland have developed language support, largely in the form of interpreting and translation, to meet the linguistic needs of those who cannot access their services in English. Five core public sector services were selected for inclusion in a research project that focused on the aforementioned language provision and related equality issues: the Scottish Courts and Tribunal Service, NHS Lothian, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, the City of Edinburgh Council and Glasgow City Council. The frameworks within which these public service providers operate—namely, the obligations derived from supranational and domestic legal and policy instruments—were analysed, as was the considerable body of standards and strategy documents that has been produced, by both national organisations and local service providers, in order to guide service delivery. Although UK equalities legislation has largely overlooked allochthonous languages and their speakers, this research found that the public service providers in question appear to regard the provision of language support as an obligation related to the Equality Act (UK Government, 2010). Many common practices related to language support were also observed across these services, in addition to shared challenges, both attitudinal and practical. A series of recommendations regarding improvements to language provision in the public sector emerged from the research findings and are highlighted in this article.

Born Again Urbanism: New Missionary Incursions, Aboriginal Resistance and Barriers to Rebuilding Relationships in Winnipeg's North End

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hugill ◽  
Owen Toews
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Urban Neighborhood ◽  
Public Funds ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Economies ◽  
Public Record ◽  
Born Again ◽  
The City ◽  
Youth Centre

This paper examines the controversy that emerged as the City of Winnipeg debated committing public funds to an evangelical Christian group seeking to build a youth centre in an urban neighborhood with a large Aboriginal population. It traces the emergence of a coordinated opposition to the project and demonstrates why many felt that municipal and federal support was not only inappropriate but also worked to recapitulate longstanding patterns of disregard for the needs and aspirations of Aboriginal peoples. In an era where it has become common for Canadian governments to speak of “reconciliation” we demonstrate how such ambitions continue to be impeded by pervasive logics of governance that work against genuine processes of decolonization. We argue that events in Winnipeg reveal the persistence of longstanding colonial dynamics and demonstrate how such dynamics are exacerbated by the regressive tendencies of the city's neoliberal orientation. We insist that colonial practices and mentalities not only permeate the present but also that they interact with, and are shaped by, the exigencies of actually existing political economies. Ours is an attempt to show how insights about the form and content of urban neoliberalism can be productively engaged with insights about how colonial relations have been reproduced and transformed in the contemporary moment. It is also an effort to demonstrate how such mentalities and practices are being resisted and challenged in important ways in contemporary Canada. Our observations are based on a range of interviews with local activists, politicians and service providers as well as a close reading of a range of political documents available on the public record.

ANALISIS STRATEGI PEMERINTAH KOTA BOGOR DALAM MENGELOLA TEMPAT PEMAKAMAN UMUM PADA DINAS KEBERSIHAN DAN PERTAMANAN KOTA BOGOR

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
M. Subki Tahyudin ◽  
Abubakar Iskandar ◽  
M. Yamin Saleh
Keyword(s):  
Management Strategies ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
City Government ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
City Administration ◽  
Human Resource Capacity ◽  
Public Response ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

The focus of the research is the management of TPU in the city of Bogor, the purpose of this study was to determine the strategy of the City Government in the management of TPU, to investigate the implementation of the government's strategy of Bogor manage TPU and for mengetaui impact strategy Bogor city administration to the user community TPU. The method used in this study is a qualitative method by taking the informant of the two types of informants for Administrative manager of TPU and user communities TPU using techniques snow ball, TPU city of Bogor there are eight TPU, the study focused on four TPU them TPU Gunung Gadung, TPU Cipaku, TPU and TPU Dreded Blender. researchers showed that the provision of land in Bogor City TPU has not been ideal with the needs of the community cemetery. At this time the city of Bogor require five (5) hectares of TPU, the strategy of the City Government in managing the TPU results structured interview stated that the strategy pegelolaan TPU is expected to provide services to the needs of society in a cemetery that is desired and expected by the public, in the implementation of the policy as a strategy management of TPU, the management of TPU is not ideal with the regulations the City Government as the provisions of the management planned, many factors and constraints in managing TPU like availability of land in the city of Bogor is very difficult to get, quality and human resource capacity to be a factor to failure in managing the TPU, lack of socialization management policy to the community of the importance of the TPU management policy, as well as the lack of attention from the Bogor city administration for the management of TPU. the impact of management strategies TPU on society shows that the answer No 54.1% and 45.9% YES answer is public response to the TPU management policy means greater datipada answers No answer Yes to show people are not satisfied with the services provided by the City Government Bogor UPTD Funeral manage TPU.Keywords: Policies, TPU, Human Resources.

The Design and Implementation of Business Models in Metropolitan Broadband Networks

2011 ◽  
pp. 196-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonios Alexiou ◽  
Christos Bouras ◽  
John Primpas ◽  
Dimitrios Papagiannopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Access Network ◽  
Wireless Systems ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Broadband Networks ◽  
Metropolitan Area Network ◽  
The Public ◽  
The City

This chapter presents the design principles that cover the implementation of broadband infrastructure in the region of Western Greece, by examining all the necessary parameters that arise while implementing such a critical developmental project. The broadband infrastructure that is deployed is either based on optical fiber (on big municipalities) or on wireless systems (OFDM based and WiFi cells). Furthermore, we present as two case studies all issues of the designing of the Metropolitan Area Network of Patras, the third largest city of Greece and the Wireless Access Network of Messatida. The major target of the broadband networks is to interconnect the buildings of the public sector in the city and also deploy infrastructure (fibers or wireless systems) that will create conditions of competition in providing both access and content services to the advantage of the end consumer. The usage of the broadband infrastructure by service providers will be based on the open availability of the infrastructure in a cost-effective way. Finally, we present the main characteristics of a proposed business plan that ensures financial viability of the broadband infrastructure and guarantees the administration, growth, and exploitation of infrastructure.

scholarly journals Do Groups Have Moral Standing in Unregulated mHealth Research?

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (S1) ◽  
pp. 122-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joon-Ho Yu ◽  
Eric Juengst
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
Data Intensive ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Science Movement

Biomedical research using data from participants’ mobile devices borrows heavily from the ethos of the “citizen science” movement, by delegating data collection and transmission to its volunteer subjects. This engagement gives volunteers the opportunity to feel like partners in the research and retain a reassuring sense of control over their participation. These virtues, in turn, give both grass-roots citizen science initiatives and institutionally sponsored mHealth studies appealing features to flag in recruiting participants from the public. But while grass-roots citizen science projects are often community-based, mHealth research ultimately depends on the individuals who own and use mobile devices. This inflects the ethos of mHealth research towards a celebration of individual autonomy and empowerment, at the expense of its implications for the communities or groups to which its individual participants belong. But the prospects of group harms — and benefits — from mHealth research are as vivid as they are in other forms of data-intensive “precision health” research, and will be important to consider in the design of any studies using this approach.

scholarly journals BEDA CARANYO, SAMO ENAKNYO : MEDIA PROMOSI TALAMAK BOWL

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-149
Author(s):  
Windy Ramadhanty ◽  
Wirania Swasty
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Ambient Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Industry Sector ◽  
West Sumatra ◽  
Medium Enterprise ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The City ◽  
Collection Methods

Indonesia has a great and priceless culinary potential of the archipelago. The culinary industry sector in Indonesia currently has a vast and increasing market, because this culinary sector is quite promising because it has economic value but still has advantages. Talamak Bowl is a small and medium enterprise (SME) in Bandung that is engaged in culinary specialties of West Sumatra. This business is still not well known by the public and there has been no increase in sales. Seeing the increasing number of culinary industry SMEs in the city of Bandung, it is necessary to have strong and effective promotional activities in offering products to many audiences in order to be superior than the others. Overcoming the problems above, then the design of promotional media is carried out by using data collection methods through observation, interviews, questionnaires and literature and the analytical method used is a comparison matrix to form the design concept. After getting conclusions from the method, the promotional media that created are applied to the name card, ambient media, brochures, e-posters and other supporting media. This design was made by combining two concept which is illustration and product photography. This design is expected that the problems faced will be resolved

scholarly journals Emotional and Practical Considerations Towards the Adoption and Abandonment of VPNs as a Privacy-Enhancing Technology

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moses Namara ◽  
Daricia Wilkinson ◽  
Kelly Caine ◽  
Bart P. Knijnenburg
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Virtual Private Networks ◽  
Internet Service ◽  
The Public ◽  
Alternative Technologies ◽  
Privacy Enhancing Technologies ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Data Tracking ◽  
Survey Responses

AbstractVirtual Private Networks (VPNs) can help people protect their privacy. Despite this, VPNs are not widely used among the public. In this survey study about the adoption and usage of VPNs, we investigate people’s motivation to use VPNs and the barriers they encounter in adopting them. Using data from 90 technologically savvy participants, we find that while nearly all (98%; 88) of the participants have knowledge about what VPNs are, less than half (42%; 37) have ever used VPNs primarily as a privacy-enhancing technology. Of these, 18% (7) abandoned using VPNs while 81% (30) continue to use them to protect their privacy online. In a qualitative analysis of survey responses, we find that people who adopt and continue to use VPNs for privacy purposes are primarily motivated by emotional considerations, including the strong desire to protect their privacy online, wide fear of surveillance and data tracking not only from Internet service providers (ISPs) but also governments and Internet corporations such as Facebook and Google. In contrast, people who are mainly motivated by practical considerations are more likely to abandon VPNs, especially once their practical need no longer exists. These people cite their access to alternative technologies and the effort required to use a VPN as reasons for abandonment. We discuss implications of these findings and provide suggestions on how to maximize adoption of privacy-enhancing technologies such as VPNs, focusing on how to align them with people’s interests and privacy risk evaluation.

Our Chains: Rear View Reflections

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (01) ◽  
pp. 51-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merle Thornton
Keyword(s):  
Public Response ◽  
The Public ◽  
City Hall ◽  
The City ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
Radical Movements

On 31 March 1965, Ro Bogner and I went into the public bar of the Regatta Hotel in Brisbane's Coronation Drive and tried to order a lemonade each. Because we were women, we were refused and ordered out, but we did not leave. We chained ourselves to the bar rail instead. The barman, then the publican, then police — first uniformed then plain-clothes — tried hard to get us to leave without force. When they failed, they unexpectedly left us to it. At once there followed a storm of publicity, even extending overseas, and public response ranging from passionate support to hostile opposition right through to threats of violence and even death. Forty-one years later, in the Museum of Brisbane in the City Hall, I saw photos, press clippings and texts about this first, and subsequent, demonstrations in the campaign to admit women to public bars in Queensland. The context was the recent Taking to the Streets Exhibition, an extensive and well-researched showing of the radical movements in Brisbane in 1965–85. Looking back, how do I now view the Regatta demonstration and the subsequent campaigns for change for women in which I was involved? Where do they stand in relation to changes since? Do they still have relevance to goals for women now?

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